BACKGROUND Increasingly, students are asked to write reflections as part of their medical education, but some question the influence of other factors on the evaluation of these reflections. In this pilot study, the investigators determined whether scores from a validated rubric to measure reflective ability were affected by irrelevant variance resulting from writing or storytelling ability. M...

In the problematic exploration of the narrative potential of videogames, one of the clearest aspects that bridge stories and games is space. This paper examines the different devices that videogames have used to incorporate stories through spatial design and what is known as environmental storytelling, focusing on the design elements that make the story directly relevant to gameplay beyond worl...

Storytelling animation has a great potential to be widely adopted by domain scientists for exploring trends in scientific simulations. However, due to the dynamic nature and generation methods of animations, serious concerns have been raised regarding their effectiveness for analytical tasks. This has led to interactive techniques often being favored over animations, as they provide the user wi...

Visual storytelling describes the communication of stories through illustrations, graphics, imagery, and video instead of, or in addition to, oral, written, audio formats. Compared to their popularity wide reach, empirical research on map-based visual remains limited. We work towards infilling this gap an study data journalism, providing first assessment four emerging design considerations for ...

Interactive storytelling and gaming technologies have great edutainment potential for engaging visitors with museum exhibitions. This paper presents the development and testing of the Interactive Storytelling Exhibition Project devised originally within the Factual and Learning Interactive Television Department of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and continued development at the Unive...

This paper deals with an interactive storytelling of game, based on Campbells heroes journey. It begins by introducing Campbell analysis and then presents how this model has been transformed in order to support for interactive storytelling. Then, it shows how this model can be used for educational games. It finishes by an experimentation of an implementation of this interactive storytelling in ...

BACKGROUND Digital storytelling is an arts-based research method with potential to elucidate complex narratives in a compelling manner, increase participant engagement, and enhance the meaning of research findings. This method involves the creation of a 3- to 5-min video that integrates multimedia materials including photos, participant voices, drawings, and music. Given the significant potenti...

A multi-story can be generated by the interactions of users in the interactive storytelling system. In this paper, we suggest narrative structure and corresponding Storytelling Markup Language. Actor, Action, and Constraint are declared and programmed using interactive storytelling system which generates the stories. Generated stories can be transformed to multimedia formats which are texts, im...

This article intends to help educators interested in technology integration in the classroom acquire a firm theoretical foundation, pedagogical applications, and step-by-step technical procedures for infusing digital storytelling into the curriculum. Through illustrations of digital storytelling projects completed in the authors’ undergraduate and graduate classes, this article discusses the be...